Another one that caused me problems the first time I visited London was the 'Army and Navy Stores'.There, it was a big, beautiful department store. I learned that it was originally intended to provide goods at reduced prices for military families.

In the US, an army/navy store is usually a small place where you can pick up surplus camo, pea jackets and flashlights.

Another one that caused me problems the first time I visited London was the 'Army and Navy Stores'.There, it was a big, beautiful department store. I learned that it was originally intended to provide goods at reduced prices for military families.

In the US, an army/navy store is usually a small place where you can pick up surplus camo, pea jackets and flashlights.

There's a Kane trucking company, which isn't odd, but their slogan "Kane is Able!" always gets to me.

Since I'm in Hawaii, when I see "Kane," I hear "Ka-ney" which means "man" in Hawaiian. Usually meant in a macho way, so a "Kane trucking" would imply some big, burly guys loading and driving trucks around. That's the guys I want to hire!

Then I saw their slogan.

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"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

I have only seen one of these, parked in the yard of a trucking company: a semitrailer advertising Platonic Transport (motto: We don't fool around!)

Schindler's Lifts sounds as if it were trying to play off "Schindler's List." The way pr0n movie titles are often plays on the titles of real movies (e.g., On Golden Bl0nde). Which would make me do a double take as I consider "Schindler's List" far too serious a movie to make silly puns with its name. But if the lift company came first, it's just an unfortunate coincidence.

I never saw a Wawa until I moved to southern New Jersey for a year. All I could think of was Barbara Walters' "Saturday Night Live" alter ego, Baba Wawa.